ABSTRACT

Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

chapter |16 pages

Introducing Constructing

part |42 pages

Narrating Literary Histories

chapter |17 pages

Constructing (Post)Modernism

The Case of Ulysses

part |83 pages

(Mis)Reading Pynchon

chapter |26 pages

Modernist Reading, Postmodernist Text

The Case of Gravity's Rainbow (1979)

chapter |28 pages

“You Used to Know What these Words Mean”

Misreading Gravity's Rainbow (1985)

chapter |27 pages

Zapping, the Art of Switching Channels

On Vineland 1

part |80 pages

Reading Postmodernists

chapter |23 pages

Ways of World-Making

On Foucault's Pendulum

chapter |19 pages

Women and Men and Angels

On Joseph McElroy's Fiction

chapter |16 pages

“I Draw the Line as a Rule between One Solar System and Another”

The Postmodernism(s) of Christine Brooke-Rose

part |45 pages

At the Interface